EDC 430 Class 1 - Class Introductions and Thinking about "Student Understanding"

Session Goals

Describe major goals, features and assignments of course
Synthesize our ideas about how students learn science.
Develop a working definition of student understanding.
Identify classmates and the science disciplines they plan to teach.
Become familiar with some of the course's online resources: The URIteacherknowledge "wikispace."
Prepare to write a personal teaching rationale.

Agenda

As you come in: Check your email on the web and join the URIteacherknowledge Wiki!
Who's in class with me? Are there others interested in teaching in my discipline?
What happens in a "Science Teaching Methods" Course?
Break
What do we know about how students learn?
What is a teaching rationale?
- What is are the most important things that my science students should learn?
- How will I teach them?

For Next Week

This week's reading can be found online at: http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10126&page=1
- or here is the PDF:
  How Students Learn Ch 1v2.pdf
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  Reading - A Fish Story
Post your teaching rationales here: EDC 430 Teaching Rationales
Clean up your online identities!